... We need legislation for that ...

Legislation is also needed for tariffs (except for a snarrow exception)

Legislation is also needed to declare war on Venezuela.

etc.

More from the rticle ...

... YouGov/Economist polling over the past three months shows a clear downward trend in Trump's standing with middle-class Americans. In September, the group split 44 percent approval to 54 percent disapproval (-10). By October, approval slipped to 42 percent and disapproval reached 53 percent (-11).

The latest November numbers show a sharper deterioration: just 40 percent approve of Trump's performance, while 58 percent disapprove -- a steep net decline of 18 points

The shift comes after a disruptive government shutdown and amid continued anxiety about food prices, housing costs, and winter energy bills.
Why It Matters

Middle-income Americans have historically been a contested but important group for the Republican Party. In the 2024 presidential election, Trump won 52 percent of the vote among those earning $50,000-$100,000 compared to Kamala Harris' 46 percent, flipping support from a group that had been more favorable to the Democrats in the 2020 election -- when Trump won 46 percent of their votes compared to Joe Biden's 54 percent.

The latest polls suggest support from middle-income earners may be slipping away from the Republican Party. ...

@#3 ... We call that rain and your typical fall Saturday in the Seattle area. ...

Yeah, that's the thing... "typical."

In the desert area of SoCal, this is not typical. The infrastructure is not designed to handle this.

Last year, here in CT we had a similar event.

Lots of water, no place to go.

Friggin' wow.

I can't make this stuff up, but apparently, the far-right can.

Reminds me of the pizza-gate absurdity, but this one seems worse to me.

More from the article ...

... If you're not chronically online, you may be unaware that "transvestigation" is a transphobic conspiracy theory that has gained traction since it first popped up in 2017, where MAGA followers believe that celebrities, athletes, and politicians are secretly transgender. They spend time "investigating" their unfounded, nonsensical theories by examining body language, jawlines, collarbone shape, and using debunked pseudoscience like phrenology to analyze skull shape.

The harmful and absurd conspiracy has led to transvestigations of Olympic boxer Imane Khelif, John Krasinski, Miss Universe Victoria Kjaer Theilvig, French first lady Brigitte Macron, Dylan Mulvaney (who they claim was a trans man before becoming a trans woman), and even the Statue of Liberty " yes, that's a real thing that happened.

But now, instead of focusing on random celebrities or people they perceive to be liberal, the right is transvestigating late conservative political pundit Charlie Kirk and his widow, Erika. ...

@#59 ... Just calling it out. ...

What's the "it" your current trolling alias wants to call out?

As I asked previously, please be specific.

More ...

For starters, a better link ...

@#53 ... No chain of custody. ...

How so?

The documents were in the possession of the Epstein estate, and have been presented as such. So, please state quite specifically the concern you have regarding the provenance of evidence.

thx.

@#54 ... Critical Theory has entered the chat. ...

Yeah, when I first read the comment you seem to be referring to, I asked myself, how long before the other current aliases show up.

I was not disappointed.

:)

@#57 ... certainly violated more than one site policy regarding spam ...

What site policy is that?

Please be specific, with links to the policy on this site.

thx.

A classic cover-tune performance, imo...

... a mounting US show of force in the region.

"I sort of have made up my mind " ...
[emphasis mine]

Such decisiveness for such an important issue is awe-inspiring.

/s

More from the article ...

... Millions of Americans greeted the end of the government shutdown -- and the resumption of food stamp benefits -- with relief. But others are learning they could soon lose federal food aid permanently.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins directed USDA staff during the record-setting 43-day shutdown to continue ushering states toward compliance with Republicans' signature tax and spending law, which is projected to kick millions out of the nation's largest anti-hunger program in the next few months.

Those changes, combined with other provisions in the new law, will represent the most significant cuts to the social safety net in decades. And it all comes as low-income families are confronting stagnating wages that aren't keeping up with the skyrocketing cost of living " an issue that some Republicans blamed for their losses in off-year elections this month.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provides an average of $6 per day for nearly 42 million people, roughly 40 percent of whom are children. Under the new law, parents and older Americans will be required to meet stricter work requirements, and states eventually will have to share in the cost of SNAP benefits, which could force further program cuts, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Tens of thousands of legal immigrants will also lose access to the program under the law. ...

@#19

Oops, messed that up.

Should be...

Spirit - Taurus (1968)

The band is Spirit, the song is Taurus.

Apologies.

@#2 ... So what? A little too late for them to come to their senses.

He's going to wreck the nation for the next four years and then some. ...

I do not disagree.

Especially the aspect of regretting what they voted for.

@#27 ... I think he just says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear at any given moment. Reality be damned. ...

My first though upon reading your comment, yeah, that may be correct. Or not.

But after taking a step back, I'd tend to agree.

Pres Trump wants unfettered obsequious adulation, and how to attain that? Simple, tell people what they want to hear. They'll love you for that (case in point, FoxNews).

Another pre-DSotM soundtrack Pink Floyd song appeared on a playlist here ...

@#24 ... He might not even know he's doing it. ...

I've oft wondered if Pres Trump knows when he is lying, or whether it may be so ingrained in him, that he has not a clue when he does it.

... A six-figure salary doesn't mean what it once did. That's the takeaway from a new Harris poll, which suggests a six-figure income in 2025 equates to survival, but not necessarily to success. One in three six-figure earners described themselves in the poll as financially distressed. ...

I guess my first question would be, why do they think they are financially distressed?

Maybe because the mortgage on the huge house they own is draining their income?

Is this just more "victim-hood?"

At this point, I wish I had a six-figure income to live on.

But I don't.

Yeah, Pres Trump seems to have opened up the tax-payers money for grift from his criminal associates.

... A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun ...

I will not post my first thought in this reply of what I though when I read that.

Instead I will say, friggin' wow, this still happens in the Country?

@#22 ... The sad part is how much the MAGA aficionados have bought into those lies, and still believe them. ...

Reminds me of the old pre-DSotM soundtrack Pink Floyd song ...

@#21 ... It's always possible he was just lying, in order to win the election. ...

I'd proffer, regarding Pres Trump, that he was lying because that is all he knows how to do.

That is, he was not just lying to get elected, but he was lying because lying is all he can do when he speaks.

The sad part is how much the MAGA aficionados have bought into those lies, and still believe them.